Awesome Command Line Tools

Speaker

Amjith Ramanujam

Material

• video
• slide

Note

Core Concepts

• Discoverability
  • Be forthcoming
  • Eschew special key
  • example
    • pgcli (tab completion)
    • fish shell (ctrl - r: search through the history)
• User Focus
  • User come first, implementation later
  • example
    • mycli
    • bpython
• Configurability
  • subjective options only (e.g., color)

Checklist

• Persistent history
• History search
• Emacs Keybindings
• Paged Output
• Auto-Completion
• Minimal Config
• Syntax Coloring

Toolkit

• python-prompt-toolkit
  • prompt
    • hisotry
    • auto_suggest
    • completer
    • lexer
• pygements
  • lexers

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